https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387455
Felix Ernst <felixer...@kde.org> changed:
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--- Comment #11 from Felix Ernst <felixer...@kde.org> ---
(In reply to Méven Car from comment #10)
> (In reply to Alexander Wilms from comment #9)
> > To make some progress, it would be good to have an estimate of how much time
> > the implementation would take and what sum would need to be sponsored.
>
> I would estimate this to 2-3 weeks for developing pretty much full time. I
> tend to be too optimistic when evaluating needed work time
I think that's way too optimistic. 😅 That's potentially how long it might take
to have workable basic functionality that's mergable, but factor in all the
edge cases, the ongoing maintenance work of an extra and uniquely-behaving view
mode, all the polishing, fixes for features that interact with the view and now
need to be adapted, time of reviewers, etc., and I would say you could easily
*multiply* the 2-3 weeks by 3 to 8.
Of course KDE contributors have started and continually worked on even bigger
long-term tasks in the past, but IMO realistically people who work on this will
be grossly underpaid by normal economic standpoints unless we find exceptional
funding streams. "1500€ to 2250€" would potentially be the value of the work I
would be doing simply by co-maintaining, dealing with bug reports, reviewing
fixes, and dealing with crashes or other potential fallout even if Mèven would
be doing all of the work of actually implementing the main functionality.
And let's not forget that those amounts do not include all the work KDE
contributors have done until now to get comfortable with the code base.
>The amount of revenue to pay for compensating this work is
>pretty expensive given my usual work hourly rate,
>would be around 1500€ to 2250€
I just want to point out how very generous it is by Mèven to state that amount.
Even by his own estimates that is for example far below the minimum wage in
Switzerland.
2250€ / 3 weeks = 2250€ / 120 work hours = 18.75 €/h
Mèven is very capable, so that's again a value I would multiply by normal
economic view points. Of course, many KDE contributors do a lot of work as
volunteers for free, so normal economic considerations are generally not a
topic in KDE.
>it would be good to have an estimate of how much time
> the implementation would take and what sum would need to be sponsored.
By my estimate, funding as high as 50 000€ would not be outlandish. But the
real answer is "as much money until a contributor is so generous to give their
work to the world at a discount".
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